We performed a comparison between Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and IBM SoftLayer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Nasuni, Google and others in Cloud Storage."I appreciate Amazon's extensive range of services, which makes it a favorable choice."
"EFS is flexible."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"We can run code and deploy it whenever we want."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"We are not that big of a cloud user. We just use it for the storage of our bytes. The most valuable aspect is the storage."
"The most beneficial feature of the product for data storage stems from the fact that it serves as a shared file storage."
"Its elasticity and flexible pricing are the most valuable. For Amazon EFS, you are charged based on the storage. It is also very fast and stable with a very simple and intuitive interface."
"The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The lack of transparency in the costs attached to the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The user activity needs to be more connected."
"Its deployment process could be faster while installing the Python package directly into the environment."
"It should be simplified. There are people who don't have cloud experience. It should be storage that we are able to just connect to."
"Around 80 percent of the features of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) are available on Linux and not in Windows, making it a major drawback of the product."
"It could be better in connecting with Windows Server instances."
"Specifically, when it comes to the file system for the learning system, we encountered performance issues with both Azure and AWS."
"The interface seems strange and complicated."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
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Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Storage with 9 reviews while IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services. Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is rated 8.6, while IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) writes "Useful for storing details of projects and has an easy configuration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is most compared with Microsoft Azure File Storage, Google Cloud Storage, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon S3 Glacier and Azure NetApp Files, whereas IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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